Meeting 20: The Sea Around Us

✨ June 1, 2026 | 📍 Oberweis Ice Cream and Dairy Store | ⏰ Time: 6:45 pm Dutch-treat, 7 pm Discussion

Read an award-winning book by a female American marine biologist, writer, conservationist, and environmentalist

• Nature, Environment, Biology, Classics, Ecology, History

• 288 pages, first published July 1951

• Available at 22 Michigan Libraries, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon

  
  

• “The Sea Around Us remains as fresh today as when it first appeared over six decades ago. Carson's genius for evoking the power and primacy of the world's bodies of water, combining the cosmic and the intimate, remains almost unmatched: the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast sky; the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans; giant squids battling sperm whales hundreds of fathoms below the surface; the power of the tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in one bay alone; the seismic waves known as tsunamis that periodically remind…